Monday, April 26, 2010

Pronouns

Pronouns

Halanacht has rather a large number of possible pronouns. Fortunately they are all formed in a perfectly standard way and there are actually only five roots that need to be learned.

Roots
1st person: mem
2nd person: tem
3rd person masculine: hem
3rd person feminine: shem
3rd person neuter: illem

Suffixes
-a: objective case
-im: makes it plural
-z: makes it posessive
-azim: objective case, posessive and plural
-aim: objective case and plural
-zim: posessive and plural

Prefixes
aba- respectful, formal
kek- contemptuous
ishi- diminutive

Examples:
mem /mem/ :: I

mema /mem ah/ :: me  [(mem) root + (-a) which makes it objective case]

memz /memz/  :: my  [(mem) root + (-z) posessive suffix]

memaz /mem ahz/ :: mine  [(mem) root + (-a) objective suffix + (-z)
posessive suffix

memim /mem eem/ :: we  [(mem) root + (-im) plural suffix]

memaim /mem ah eem/ :: us  [(mem)root + (-a) objective suffix
+ (-im) plural suffix]

memzim /mem zeem/ :: our [(mem) root + (-z) posessive
+ (-im) plural]

memazim /mem ah zeem/ :: ours [(mem) root + (-a) objective
+ (-z) posessive + (-im) plural]




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